Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Title
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Assessing the water quality of canals in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
(Scientific and Academic Publishing, 2020-09-15)Environmental degradation related to hazardous pollutants from economic activity became a major concern in many rapidly developing mega cities of the global South. In this study, the level of selected parameters (pH, TDS, ... -
Bangladesh and Covid-19: Reversals and resilience
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-27)This article examines two primary data sets to identify the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. It attempts to identify how the trends in sectors such as agriculture, ... -
Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? Evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda
(MIT Press, 2022-11-14)Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability, but there is limited evidence on whether ... -
Can ultra-poverty be sustainably improved? Evidence from BRAC in Bangladesh
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-19)With more than one-fifth of Bangladesh's population living in extreme poverty, surmounting it still remains a substantial predicament for development practitioners. To combat this issue, BRAC initiated the multifaceted ... -
Capability Development among the Ultra-poor in Bangladesh: A case study
(BMC, 2009-08)Microcredit is advocated as a development tool that has the potential to reduce poverty, empower participants, and improve health. Results of several studies have shown that the extreme poor, or the ultra-poor, often are ... -
Changes in extreme poverty in Bangladesh (2000–2015): Trend, dynamics, and implications for research and interventions
(Practical Action Publishing, 2018)Headcount extreme poverty in Bangladesh has been declining since 2000, but how has the profile and income distribution of the poorest changed and what do these mean for intervention design and directions for innovations? ... -
Concentration of authority and rent seeking behaviour in bureaucracy: An evidence of ineffective governance in Bangladesh
(IDEAS, 2018)Political leadership and public administration run the government of Bangladesh. Political wing is short tenured under a democratic system, but the public administration is permanent. An administrative process in Bangladesh ... -
The contested relationship between paid work and women’s empowerment: Empirical analysis from Bangladesh
(Springer Link, 2018-04-01)The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of ... -
Coping with COVID-19: the case of Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2020-06-08)Managing the health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19 requires some inevitable trade-offs. By presenting a conceptual framework, this study, however, argues that the severity of the trade-off can be reduced by adopting ... -
COVID-19 vaccination: Willingness and practice in Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2022-05-16)Summary Motivation The urgency and scale of mass adult immunization for COVID-19 presents a huge challenge for any low- and middle-income country (LMIC) like Bangladesh. Our analysis focuses on demand-side constraints ... -
Credit and land contracting: A test of the theory of sharecropping
(Wiley Online Library, 2019-03-26)Choice of a share vs. fixed rent land rental contract has figured prominently in the theory of industrial organization. This theory tells us that, while a share contract is inefficient in a first-best world, it may be the ... -
Cultural norms, economic incentives and women’s labour market behaviour: Empirical insights from Bangladesh
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-12)This paper sets out to explore a seeming puzzle in the context of Bangladesh. There is a considerable body of evidence from the country pointing to the positive impact of paid work on women’s position within family and ... -
De-risking private power in Bangladesh: How financing design can stop collusive contracting
(Elsevier, 2022-09)Collusive contracting with private power plants in Bangladesh has resulted in high power prices that cost the taxpayer around U$1 billion in subsidies. The main driver of collusive contracting is the unwillingness of ... -
Demand for tobacco products in Bangladesh
(BMJ Journals, 2021-04-02)Tobacco tax increase is considered as one of the most effective means to reduce tobacco consumption and its consequences. An increase in taxes, which results in an increase in the price of tobacco products, reduces ... -
Development, welfare and governance: explaining Bangladesh’s ‘development surprise’
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Diverging Stories of “Missing Women” in South Asia: Is Son Preference Weakening in Bangladesh?
ABSTRACT: South Asia is a region characterized by a culture of son preference, severe discrimination against daughters, and excess levels of female mortality, leading to what Amartya Sen called the phenomenon of “missing ... -
Do key performance indicators matter on public procurement rules 2008? an empirical study on Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh
This study focuses on the importance of transparency and accountability of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)’s procurement performance based on 45 predetermined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The main ... -
Do poor people’s dreams ever come true? Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Springer Link, 2022-02)Bangladesh has made progress in advancing adolescent girls’ education, but there remain substantial evidence gaps around age and gender differences in motivations, retention, and access to education for adolescents living ... -
Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
(Practical Action Publishing, 2015-06)Access to education is usually found to be highly correlated with household income and wealth. This correlation often instigates an expectation that increasing income of the poor households will lead to greater human capital ...